Is AI a Gambler?

What The Talmud Says About Next Token Prediction

Pictured: Jim Simons, Founder of Renaissance Technologies, Pioneer of Quant Investing

In the ancient halls of the Talmudic academies, sages debated the moral character of the mesachek bekubia—the dice player or gambler. Their concerns, articulated roughly 2,000 years ago, resonate with surprising relevance in our era of artificial intelligence and probab…